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Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Jan 23, 1941

Page

7

Pro football stars chase quiet farms after the season

Grantland Rice recalls Sam Baugh Dick Todd and other players heading to Texas ranches and quiet life after the Bears game. He notes Baugh plans an 800 acre cattle operation and Todd a Sweetwater ranch. The piece also profiles Danny Fortman a Penn medical student and bears guard.

OS Angeles Texas Sammy Baugh Dick Todd Washington Redskins Chicago Bears Baugh Sammy Sam Sweetwater Todd Lew Jenkins Jenkins Yew Falashi Danny Fortman Danny Colgate

Winter menus and meals with goulash and pies

Mid winter market offers warming ideas for family meals with Hungarian goulash and Yorkshire puddings. Recipes include toasted buttered noodles, Brazil nut cherry pie, honey spice cake, tomato chicken soup, apricot sweet potatoes and a cabbage salad with apples and carrots.

When Daughter Learns to Cook

A father encourages his teenage daughter to cook by using Eleanor Howe's Cook Book Feeding Father. The book promises simple instructions and a baked chocolate cake recipe with minimal supervision. Send 10 cents to Weeding Father care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago to receive a copy.

Eleanor Howe North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois

Puzzleish Classroom Gags from a Quiet Town

A playful scene spans multiple quips: a housewife and tramp dispute honest work, a teacher jokes about a missing dot over an i, a boy asks about the pencil, and a couple laments money woes. The final vignette notes moving to the country and missing the last train home.

Turmoil and the Need for Peace in Turbulent Times

Quotation from Tacitus on how disorder grants power to evil doers while mental and moral excellence demand calm and restraint amid turmoil. The statement highlights the moral contrast between leadership under chaos and virtue through quiet discipline.

Anne Tacitus

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